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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMAPONTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Sacoglossa (Superorder)
> Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily)
> Limapontiidae (Family)
> Ercolania (Genus)
> felina (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Stiliger (Ercolania) Trinchese, 1872
Synonymised Names:
=Calliopaea felina Hutton, 1882
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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMAPONTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Sacoglossa (Superorder)
> Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily)
> Limapontiidae (Family)
> Ercolania (Genus)
> felina (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Stiliger (Ercolania) Trinchese, 1872
Synonymised Names:
=Calliopaea felina Hutton, 1882
Details: Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 10mm
Distribution:
North and South Islands. On green filamentous algae Chaetomorpha
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Shell absent
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.62)
  • Morley, M.S. Apr/2004 A population of the sea slug Ercolania felina, Poirieria, 30 (p.9)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F.W. Hutton in The New Zealand Journal of Science, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 25 (p.498)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.283)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil